The country would be in much better shape. Imagine the pay offers for labor without all these foreigners around. You guys complain about the rich, complain about the minimum wage, and at the same time, usher in all these foreigners to take jobs Americans should be doing. And no, there are no jobs that Americans won't do for the right price.
A whole lot of flaws in this theory.
The first one being that foreigners contribute nothing. They do jobs, but they also increase consumer demand.
yes, contrary to what you think consumer demand creates jobs. So when an immigrant comes here, he produces goods and services, but he also consumes goods and services produced by other people. I realize being a battered housewife Republican, you think jobs are created by rich assholes riding around in limos, but no, they are created by consumers.
Some of my best customers are immigrants... they have some wicked awesome skills, but not so great at writing them down.
On a related note, even when we are talking about legal immigrants, in fields that pay well, there are jobs Americans won't do. take nursing for example. Most of the nurses you see in hospitals here in Chicago are Filipinos, Indians and Poles. White American chicks aren't took keen on being around sick people leaking bodily fluids, for some reason.